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I'm sure he's changed the battery a few times. The only "pop" is the noise when he plugs the jack back in

yeh vodaphone

Never heard of them, just listened, thanks! I'll be buying some of their music

Ahh, I didn't see you then, sorry, we were rushing from another gig just before in audlem. Great set up at Darwen though!

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1432585256' post='2783078'] Played MainStage at Darwen Music Live today. Nailed it. Lots of happy campers [/quote] Nice one! Which band were you in Paul? My band Headsticks were on just before Space

well, it was worse than ever and he's resigned himself to buying a new guitar. Everyone I've asked about it is totally baffled

As a general rule, it's best to assume that the gig will be more fraught than the rehearsal, so if you're not happy with rehearsal, don't do the gig. Can't you just persuade him to ditch the phone?

well a lot of good bassists either need music to read, or improvise over chords in a pretty "standard" way - however impressive their technique What CW does with muse is to compose a bassline which makes so much more of the song than your standard root-5th-jam would do.

If there are going to be bits where the bass is right up front, or even soloing, then a mid cut combined with volume boost (you could do this with an EQ pedal) would be good to turn on for these sections, then go back to the more middy sound to gel with the rest of the band.

what's this saturday night performance I've missed? On TV? I was well into muse up until Absolution. They seemed to lose their "edge" whatever that was. Anyway, yes, he's a monster player!

I started playing guitar when I was 7, and picked up bass when I was 15. I bought it because someone needed a bassist for a punk band, and I'd always been fascinated by the bass because my mum was well into motown, disco, and funk When I was 22 our drummer left so I took up drumming to try and continue in the same sort of musical direction with my singer/guitarist mate. Drumming always just came naturally. Obviously there's a things you have to teach yourself - disconnecting your feet from your hands (mentally) was the first big hurdle Anyway, I realise now that I've always been a drummer. I walk in time, I hear rhythms in all background noise, I drum with my teeth, feet, fingers, and hands, almost constantly, all my life. I remember playing with chop sticks on pots and pans when I was about 5.

I'm surprised you're not getting any noise recording your bass directly into your sound blaster. The inputs on it are likely not designed to take a guitar signal. If anything it should be better recording from the amp, but, I really would recommend you get a decent audio interface if you're getting into recording.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1432204158' post='2779084'] Nope, it's a fourth. [/quote] Depends which way round! He was going from C to G, which is quite common to do over a C chord, where G would be the 5th

yes, tell us more!

whatever you do, for god's sake, don't complain!

yes he does loop it round his strap I've always used straight jacks with my basses, which have the same stereo barrel type jack as in his yamaha acoustic. I've never experienced anything like this! Anyway, I'll give it a few gigs (3 this weekend!) and then report back

This is so weird. He must have tried pushing the jack in once it had cut out, and that would have solved it... Maybe not! Well, anyway, if it's solved I'm happy. Thanks for all the help

The other end goes into something different every week. Amps, DI boxes, straight into the desk etc. I'm pretty sure it's not that end as when we un-plug and re-plug it works, and this is only done at the guitar end

not sure but I'd open it up and check for any loose connections or dry solder joints

we tried it last night and it didn't cut out once. This doesn't necessarily mean it's fixed, but another few rehearsals and gigs with this cable would convince me. So what's the explanation? The jack just goes into the socket a little further?

Not for everyone but... I started on guitar, and I really liked the percussive style I got from strumming the whole guitar, but just playing one or two notes, so I had to learn to mute the rest of the strings with my left hand. Sometimes this would be with fingers, sometimes with the thumb over the top of the neck. Not so easy on a 6 string bass, but in combination with my right hand it works pretty well.

ok, yeh, I have one of those, I'll get him to try it, thanks!

Flat at each end?! I've never seen a flat guitar cable?

well he replaced the socket for the 3rd time at the weekend, all seemed well, then it happened again during the first song of our set. The pre-amp was replaced about a year ago, and the problem was happening before and continues (it was replaced due to a snapped pot shaft, you can't get them individually) I did suspect the jack cables he had might not fight the socket correctly, but we've tried every combination now So, absolutely stumped. The only electronic parts that haven't been touched are the battery compartment and the pickup.Once it cuts out, you take the jack and, put it back in, and it works straight away. If it was an intermittent fault on the battery compartment, then you'd have to move something close to the battery compartment in order for it to start working again I'm so baffled

Not as far as I know. I don't have access to it at the moment but will check it out on Saturday. I have tried all manner of jack waggling but turning didn't occur to me!